TNM 105: Elise Ballard – How to Change Your Life in an Instant

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TNM 105: Elise Ballard – How to Change Your Life in an Instant

4 Comments 21 June 2011

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Do you ever feel like your head is up your *ss?

Are you tired of feeling stuck and wish that a bolt of lightning would come down to change everything in an instant?

Or maybe you’re wasting your life in some draining relationship or holding a grudge that is rotting your soul.

In this interview we’re talking about epiphanies with Elise Ballard. What ARE epiphanies? And how can YOUR life be forever changed by one? Listen in as we discuss and tell our own very personal stories.

This is the Edgiest Show I’ve Ever Done

On a personal level, this is the edgiest show I’ve ever done. In this interview I share a story about my life that up until this point I had only shared with a handful of people.

In this episode:

  • Epiphanies and why they’re important
  • How to find your inner voice
  • How to prepare yourself for an epiphany
  • What to do if you’ve had an epiphany
  • Ending a painful relationship
  • Letting go of a grudge

About Elise Ballard

Elise Ballard is an actress, independent filmmaker and producer, the creator of EpiphanyChannel.com, and now, an author. Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage and Transform is her first book. She started her career in entertainment working as an actress in New York, Austin, TX and Los Angeles, and moved into producing in Los Angeles as a partner in a production company that produced films distributed by Lionsgate and Monarch Entertainment. Her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, TX, became a cult hit, receiving considerable national press coverage, playing film festival circuits and PBS, and is still selling to lovely dachshund fans worldwide. Since then, she has created, directed and produced numerous projects including BackStage: Behind the Scenes segments for Time Warner cable’s Publik Music channel; FitPack, a series of short exercise regimens and viral ads by NYC celebrity trainer Joel Harper, and the YOU DVDs accompanying the YOU book series by world-renowned, bestselling authors, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen. She is currently in development on several projects, including more for EpiphanyChannel.com, film and television versions of the project, and future books for the Epiphany series.

Click here to visit EpiphanyChannel.com.

 

TNM 103: Steven Pressfield – The War of Resistance and Self Sabotage

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TNM 103: Steven Pressfield – The War of Resistance and Self Sabotage

6 Comments 15 March 2011

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Are you planning to some day — when the time is right — finally get around to living your dream or calling?

Why do you sabotage yourself?

And is it possible to make yourself sick because you don’t do what you were born to do?

The War of Art author Steven Pressfield is with us to talk about beating resistance and finding your true calling.

In this episode:

  • What is resistance?
  • How resistance can ruin your life
  • Self-sabotage
  • Resistance and cancer
  • The “Authentic Swing” and the Authentic Self
  • What are you called to do?
  • How to beat resistance

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TNM 101: Michael Kass – Prison, Dark Night of the Soul and Suicide – Why Bother Living?

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TNM 101: Michael Kass – Prison, Dark Night of the Soul and Suicide – Why Bother Living?

8 Comments 27 October 2010

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After a Mistake This Big, Why Bother Living?

UPDATE April 19, 2011: Michael Kass was sentenced to 10 years in prison, 5 years of parole and 10 years of probation on April 6, 2011. Click here to read more.

What if you walked out the door one morning and the cops surprised you and took you to jail?

Imagine losing everything — your money, home, friendships, your reputation, your sense of pride. Would life still be worth living?

And what’s it like to stare down 20 years of being locked up behind bars?

This episode’s guest Michael Kass screwed up. His mistakes cost him and many others millions of dollars. Money aside, he’s lost almost everything he once valued. He’s even considered suicide.

As he prepares for the possibility of spending 20 years in prison, how does Michael find peace and liberation in the midst of incredible hardship? How does he endure this dark night of the soul? And how can you, the listener benefit?

I also share my own deeply personal experience with suicide.

Listen to this episode now to find out.

In this episode:

  • Letting everyone — including yourself — down
  • Losing everything — the house, money, career, reputation
  • Terror of going to prison
  • Shame
  • The Dark Night of the Soul
  • Life was supposed to be different
  • Suicide — is life worth living?
  • Playing the victim
  • Freedom by taking responsibility
  • How to deal with terror, anxiety and shame
  • Spiritual bypassing

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